So as promised in this post I will talk about my recent work. Since the last time I posted I have done so much work therefore this post might have to be split into two.
Since my mirror images and my red scarf colour editing I have evolved my ideas into one solid question. I really thought hard about why I look at beauty, why I want to define it, why I try to change myself in front of my camera lens. And the answer is probably the most honest thing I have ever said.
But before I tell you the question I want to show you the journey I made to get to this point that I’m at now.
Firstly, I started to take photos and edit them continuing my process from before. I thought about narration and my thoughts returned to the Snow White fairy tale that I mentioned before. I thought about the damsels in distress and the dashing knights coming to save their fair maidens and this got me thinking about how I interpret fairy tales. See I think we’re the heroes of our own stories though we are also the damsels in distress, we have a human experience which can often leave us in a limbo of unknowing. So I expressed this thought through cropping my eyes and creating a narrative of my own. (See Figure 1)
This led me to experiment with an image of me asleep, I instantly imagined Snow White and how the poisoned apple forced Snow into a deep sleep. So I changed the colour of my hair and lips trying to give myself a more feminine appearance though at the same time I kind of wanted the image to look cheap and tacky because our idealised images of fairy tales are fake and unreal. I then layered some text onto the image taking a snippet of the Snow White story from a family fairy tale book of mine. (See Figure 2)
I realised that I liked using Snow White as a way to experiment with the relationship between text and image but I didn’t want to be drawn too much into the fairy tales and connotations to the story. To be honest, I know that Snow White is over used I felt that way once I had finished this piece and so I started to think of other ways to explore the notion of beauty.
From there I went back to the sketchbook, experimenting with drawing over my typical week’s schedule and writing over my drawings. I started to research Bill Viola who my tutor Robin recommended to me because of the way in which he worked. To keep it short and simple (because I want to dedicate a post to him) he would take notes and write things which then influenced his projections. This made me think about doing a projection again so I thought up different ways in which I could show my work.
